"Orinoco" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and up the Orinoco. With Thirty-one Engravings. Crown ...
— The Cockatoo's Story • Mrs. George Cupples
... convulsed in 1776, and the whole city of Cumana was reduced to ruins. The shocks were continued for upwards of a year, and were at first repeated almost hourly. There were frequent eruptions of sulphurous water from fissures in the ground, and an island in the Orinoco disappeared. ...
— Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum
... mouth of the Orinoco, came his beaten forces in retreat, with the terrible news of a happening that meant his ruin. Half-maddened, his anguish increased by the loss of his boy, he upbraided them so fiercely that Keymis, who had been in charge of the expedition, shut himself up in his ...
— The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series • Rafael Sabatini
... native names of the Orinoco, here referring to one of the northern branch mouths. A detailed map of the region is given Winsor's Columbus, ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various
... for the coast, nor any landmark, I did not know it when I saw it, or, know whether I saw it or not. We beat about a great while, and went on shore on several islands in the mouth of the great river Orinoco, but none for my purpose; only this I learned by my coasting the shore, that I was under one great mistake before, viz. that the continent which I thought I saw from the island I lived in was really no continent, but a long island, or rather a ridge of islands, reaching ...
— The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • Daniel Defoe
... Naples. Turning to America, we find that the Antilles received their population from the only two tribes, first the Arawaks and later the Caribs, who ever reached the indented northern coast of South America between the Isthmus of Panama and the mouth of the Orinoco. Here the small islands of the Venezuelan coast, often in sight, lured these peoples of river and shore to open-sea navigation, and drew them first to the Windward Isles, then northward step by step or island by island, ...
— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple |
